John P. Murphy on J Noland
Noland accesses the sacred through the crass castoffs of middle Americana.
Jordan Karney Chaim on Sasha Koozel Reibstein
Reibstein evokes the elemental interconnectedness of all things in sculptures that fuse the celestial, terrestrial, and corporeal.
Guusje Sanders on Claudia Cano
Cano examines her dichotomous identity as a Latina immigrant in the United States.
Chelsea Behle Fralick on Chantal Peñalosa
Moving across sky, land, and borders in Peñalosa’s conceptual photographic works.
Elizabeth Rooklidge on Victoria Fu and Matt Rich
A case study in partnership and collaboration.
Akiko Surai on Amanda Kachadoorian
Central San Diego: a Complicated History Composed in Plants.
Cris Scorza on Las Hermanas Iglesias
Familial empathy in the ongoing series, Commiserates.
Nick Riggle on Eva Struble
The shaping of a place: Eva Struble expands painterly technique to construct transformative images of locality, land, and self.
Elizabeth Rooklidge on Flavia D’Urso
D’Urso’s tricky, sticky bodies present a powerful phenomenology of chronic illness.
Alana Hernandez on Cog•nate Collective
Cog•nate Collective’s wide-ranging, interdisciplinary practice works across the United States–Mexico border region to investigate the space’s complex sociopolitical environment.
Chantel Paul on Farrah Karapetian
Karapetian’s prolific practice poses questions about identity, agency, and relationships both personal and socio-cultural.
Dillon Chapman on Allison Olivia Evans
With photography, film, and installation, Allison Olivia Evans composes eloquent devotions to the vitality of light.
Anthony Graham on Angie Jennings
Jennings explores visibility, embodiment, and the unseen forces at work in contemporary systems of power.
Clinton Tolley on Chantal Wnuk
Glows of screen, stirs of spirit: Chantal Wnuk and the ambivalence of romanticism.
Elizabeth Rooklidge on Yasmine Kasem
In which the fragment acts as both the remainder of loss and material for transformation.